Preventable #concussion of the week: CA HS football player says he was forced to practice without a helmet vs. players with helmets. Collided, suffered #concussion, and was denied medical attention. If true, beyond being fired, what would coach deserve? https://t.co/YHRok4pBLX

Horrifying: "Benjamin Lopez, 17, collided at full speed with a teammate who was wearing a helmet...he said he became disoriented, nauseous and started vomiting. Lopez said he was put on the sidelines without receiving medical attention." https://t.co/WYv6ts9H9Z

“He'll preserve his body— and his brain --more as a basketball player.

‘I want to be able to walk ​when I'm 40 years old,’Maddox told the Free Press recently.‘Before my shoulder injury (in high school),I never really thought about it,but after the injury,all those thingscame into play.In college football,​you're putting​body parts at risk.’"​

"Safe Games ​Save Brains"Carol Bluestein & The Good Men Project July 3, 2018

“Choose wisely whenit comes to decidingon activities.The decision you make,for yourselfor your children,is not only​about this seasonbut about the restof your and their life. Have fun. Be passionate. Above all else,​ be brain safe.”

Some of these “bio markers” for routine, subconcussive football brain trauma incurred by players at all levels are simply microscopic pieces of broken brain matter floating in the bloodstream. Think about that as youth and high school football practice begins. https://t.co/uXHCzzCJME

"What’s left of Williams’s football career — constant headaches, memory loss, fits of depression, occasional rage — makes it hard for him to stay employed... Williams and the other former players are suing the NCAA for failing to educate and protect them." https://t.co/wiekBokAO7

“No other activity associated with our school system produces the kind of​head trauma that football does, nor would one be tolerated. If trigonometry caused CTE, it would have been ripped screaming from the curriculaat high schools and colleges​a decade ago.”

"It is very much a moral dilemma for me now...I don't want to watch it.I don't wantto participate in it.I don't believe that it has a good placein the academic enterprise,which is​theUniversity of Colorado."CU Regent Linda Shoemaker

Teen Suffering From Brain Trauma ​Apologizes For Violent RampageOmaha World Herald 7/26/18​“Pitzl took four hard hitsto the head during a football gamethe night before the incident.Before football season,school tests indicatedPitzl had suffereda concussion previously.”